Trembling Meaning: Camera Instability and Gilbert Simondon's Transduction in Czech Archival Film
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/film.2021.0155" target="_blank" >10.3366/film.2021.0155</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Trembling Meaning: Camera Instability and Gilbert Simondon's Transduction in Czech Archival Film
Original language description
Many experimental found footage films base their meanings and effects on an uncanny interaction between the figurative content of the image and its material-technological underpinnings. Can this interaction arise accidentally without artistic appropriation? A recently digitised film of the Czech cinema pioneer Jan Kříženecký, Opening Ceremony of the Čech Bridge (1908), presents such an exercise in accidental aesthetics. At one point, the horizontal and vertical trembling of the Cinematograph - obtained from the Lumière brothers - translates into the trembling of the figures on the bridge so precisely that the figurative and material spheres appear to cooperate towards a common aesthetic goal. To account for such phenomena, film theory, found footage filmmaking, and archival practice need to join forces with philosophy. More specifically, Gilbert Simondon's notion of transduction, a process based on the intersection of diverse realities within a domain, allows us to conceptualise the paradoxical interaction between the figurative and material dimensions and the unintentional meanings that arises out of it. Transduction enables the distribution of elements between these heterogeneous spheres while maintaining a certain (meta)stability of this distribution within a system. In the case of archival films in which transduction occurs without prior intention or expectation, we should seek ways how the specific moments of transduction can be foregrounded and prolonged. The connection between transduction and the "trembling meaning" in Opening Ceremony, understood within the wider context of camera instability in experimental found footage, will uncover the aesthetic potentialities held by the autonomous creativity of filmic matter and its interferences with the figurative content.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60405 - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Film-Philosophy [online]
ISSN
1466-4615
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
25
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
18-41
UT code for WoS article
000635132000002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85103861347